R Observatory: Metrics for cmsaf version 3.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cmsaf

3.6.0Package record

A Toolbox for CM SAF NetCDF Data

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.9Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steffen KotheCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) is a ground segment of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and one of EUMETSATs Satellite Application Facilities. The CM SAF contributes to the sustainable monitoring of the climate system by providing essential climate variables related to the energy and water cycle of the atmosphere (https://www.cmsaf.eu). It is a joint cooperation of eight National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. The 'cmsaf' R-package includes a 'shiny' based interface for an easy application of the 'cmsafops' and 'cmsafvis' packages - the CM SAF R Toolbox. The Toolbox offers an easy way to prepare, manipulate, analyse and visualize CM SAF NetCDF formatted data. Other CF conform NetCDF data with time, longitude and latitude dimension should be applicable, but there is no guarantee for an error-free application. CM SAF climate data records are provided for free via (https://wui.cmsaf.eu/safira). Detailed information and test data are provided on the CM SAF webpage (http://www.cmsaf.eu/R_toolbox).

Changes in 3.6.0

Added option to change font size in plots (works with cmsafvis >= 1.2.10)
Added message for file chooser, which might open behind Toolbox window

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("cmsaf", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools")

Development version from cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-cmsaf

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-cmsaf

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-cmsaf

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.6.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,536 · ~19/day · ~575/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

73230 days

1.9K90 days

6.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools ↗Organization: cmsaf

3Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

128Commits

6Commit identities

128 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cmsaf adds 53 packages (34 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, fields 3.9 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0cmsafops cmsafvis

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (19)

shiny shinyjs shinyWidgets shinyFiles shinythemes colourpicker colorspace data.table maps ncdf4 raster rworldxtra FNN R.utils SearchTrees spellingtcltktestthat xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

cmsafops

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Steffen Kothe

Author, Maintainer since 1.4 (2015)

Danny Parsons

Contributor · added in 3.3.0

Releases (30)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 64 exports
add_grid_info, box_mergetime, change_att, cmsaf.add, cmsaf.addc, cmsaf.cat, cmsaf.div, cmsaf.divc, cmsaf.mul, cmsaf.mulc, cmsaf.sub, cmsaf.subc, dayrange, divdpm, extract.level, extract.period, fldmax, fldmean, fldmin, get_time, levbox_mergetime, mon.anomaly, monmax, monmean, monmin, monsd, monsum, muldpm, multimonmean, multimonsum and 34 more
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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removed 2 exports
checkfile, remapbil

added 3 exports
add_grid_info, remap, run_toolbox
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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read_nc

added 3 exports
read_ncvar, timsum, ydaymean
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 2 exports
timpctl, cmsaf.cat
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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added 12 exports
monmax, monmin, monsd, ymonmax, ymonmin, ymonsd, yseasmax, yseasmin, yseassd, timmax, timmin, timsd
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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added 5 exports
read_nc, cmsaf.mulc, cmsaf.addc, cmsaf.divc, cmsaf.subc
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2015-07-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_time
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2015-06-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-26
Total releases: 30 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 135 KB

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citation("cmsaf")

Format

Kothe, S., & Parsons, D. (2025). cmsaf: A Toolbox for CM SAF NetCDF Data (Version 3.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cmsaf

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cmsaf version 3.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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